Socks

Looking for socks to help with a particular condition?

Socks

Cosyfeet socks come with a warning. Once you’ve tried them, you won’t want to wear anything else! Crafted from high-quality yarns and made to last, we guarantee your feet will love them. In fact, if they’re not the most comfortable, best-fitting socks you’ve ever worn, you can return them for free at any time and get your money back.

Hosiery

Looking for hosiery to help with a particular condition?

Hosiery

We’re on a mission to bring you the most comfortable hosiery you’ll ever wear! Hosiery that doesn’t cut off your circulation, won’t sag or fall-down and is long enough in the legs and roomy enough in the thighs and waist. Made in Britain, exclusively for Cosyfeet, our hosiery is designed to fit you perfectly – whatever your shape or size. And if it doesn’t, just return it at any time and we’ll give you your money back.

Foot Comfort

Looking for products from our foot comfort collection to help with a particular condition?

Foot Comfort

If you suffer from foot pain or want greater comfort then take a look at our range of insoles including Vionic, Heel that Pain and The Original Copper Heeler. We also have a range of gel products to soothe and protect corns, bunions and sensitive feet plus sumptuous creams to soften calluses and keep feet moisturised.

UK podiatrists said the research supported their view that shoes could worsen the problem - but it was a myth they were completely to blame.

The main sign of the condition is the big toe pointing towards the other toes, which forces out the bone attached to it - the first metatarsal.

This changes the shape of the foot and can cause swelling, tenderness and pain.

If symptoms get too bad to bear, surgery will be needed to remove the bunion.

Women are known to have a higher incidence of the condition - and this has fed into the idea that high heels or ill-fitting fashionable shoes are to blame.

But while these could exacerbate the symptoms - because they might rub the bunion and cause pain or blistering - they do not cause it.

Foot Shape

The study, carried out between 2002 and 2008, looked at people who had foot complaints, including bunions and hammer and claw toes and then looked at the incidence of the same conditions in close family members.

It found a very strong correlation between family incidence of bunions, across men and women of all ages, but particularly in women.

The researchers suggest this could be due to inheriting a particular shape of foot which predisposes a person to developing the condition.

Dr Marian Hannan, who led the study, said: "These new findings highlight the importance of furthering our understanding of what causes greater susceptibility to these foot conditions, as knowing more about the pathway may ultimately lead to early prevention or early treatment."

Richard Handford, of the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists, said: "This is what we tell our patients - as opposed to the myth that shoes cause bunions.

It is something a person will have a predisposition to - but poor footwear will exacerbate it.

It's a bony deformity, so it's not going to fit into a shoe if you ram it in.